Dawn

Cyanotype on canvas, stones, fabric, and mud. 120” X 192”, 2018

My name is Rokhshana, I’m 19.

I was stoned to death in 2015, for the crime of being in love. My body has merged with the soil somewhere in a Middle Eastern mountain, and it will fertilize that land again.

This is the story of a girl who was stoned to death, now laying down in the middle of the oldest altar. Her heart turned to stone, shattered to pieces under her feet.